IS IT A CURSE?

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20282, 4 December 1935, Page 9

IS IT A CURSE?

NOTED EGYPTOLOGIST DIES REVIVAL OF TUTANKHAMEN MYTH United Press Association— By Electrlo Telegraph—Copyright (Received December 3, 5.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 2. The death to-day of Professor James Henry Breasted, the noted Egyptologist, has revived the myth of Tutankhamen’s curse. Professor Breasted, who was one of the discoverers of Pharaoh’s tombs, was taken ill at sea aboard an Italian liner, a week ago. The malady was then diagnosed as tropical malaria and he was rushed to hospital on arrival. He was put under the care of six noted specialists. They declared themselves unable to determine the nature of his illness at first, but later agreed that death was the result of hemolytic streptocolocio infection that started as a sore throat and fever. Throughout his life the savant’s throat had never been very strong, and the infection settled there. He himself always scoffed at the superstition to which is ascribed the death of a score of members of Tutankhamen’s expedition. As a result of his last trip to the Near East, Professor Breasted obtained the permission of the Iran Government to take 30,000 cuneiform tablets, which were discovered two years ago in Persepolis, to Chicago for deciphering.